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Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade::North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.

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[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

We've hit the wall of diminishing returns. How much power do you need to run lemmy?

Ive got a 4k oled 144hrtz panel in my phone... to read lemmy.

And my pixel 6 is considered aging.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Pixel 6, look at Mr. Monopoly over here. I just got a 5 off eBay for $100. In fact, my last 6 or 7 phones came from eBay. Can't imagine why I would pay for the latest and greatest.

[–] dlok@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you put something like lineage on it? I replaced my 5 with a 7a just because it no longer gets updates as of this month I believe it is

[–] YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

GrapheneOS, definitely worth checking out!

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Tmobile gave it to me for free after they shitcanned 4g during the Sprint merger. They had to give out new shiny 5g phones to appease users.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No way in hell I'd trust some rando from eBay with selling me a phone not riddled with Malware.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wipe that shit with a new ROM and you're golden.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

better hope the bootloader isn't infected as well

[–] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You can flash the bootloader too.

[–] p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I got an iPhone 14 pro as an upgrade (contract). Had a pixel 6 before, wish I had stayed on the 6 to be honest, the 14 pro is amazing but I barely use it for anything.

[–] PatFussy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

You need at least 2 pixel 6's to run a lemmy... sorry 😞

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pixel 6 has 1080p90 OLED but ok

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's 1440p120